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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2013
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A reception unit receives data whose bit rate varies. A signal processing sectionconverts the data received by the reception unit into data of a data format to be transmitted to a client apparatus and stores the data obtained by the conversion into a buffer. When data is stored by a given amount into the buffer, a transmission section streaming-distributes the data to the client apparatus. A control sectionadditionally stores, when data is not stored by the given amount into the bufferin a given transmission period, dummy data into the bufferuntil the given amount is reached, and controls the transmission section to transmit the resulting data.